# OpenWeb Ninja Real-Time News Search API

> OpenWeb Ninja Real-Time News Search API is a paid API for AI agents from x402.openwebninja.com, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15, last successful call 2026-08-06).

Searches the live web for real-time news articles matching a query, returning current headlines and article data payable per call via x402.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://x402.openwebninja.com/real-time-news-search/search
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Last successful call: 2026-08-06
- Success rate: 100% of calls made through Zero
- Activations on Zero: 1
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/openweb-ninja-real-time-news-search-api-e4bf3e8d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_fBPz7T5WG2aOBr8kDYp-U

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability openweb-ninja-real-time-news-search-api-e4bf3e8d
```

Example prompt: Search for the latest real-time news about the Federal Reserve interest rate decision and give me the top recent articles.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time, freshly indexed news articles without setting up an account or API key — especially useful for AI agents that need pay-per-call access to current news data at low cost ($0.003/call). Prefer it over traditional news APIs when you want frictionless crypto micropayment billing and broad web-crawled news coverage across topics.

## Known failure modes

- Payment failure if USDC balance is insufficient or x402 handshake fails
- Empty results if the query matches no recent indexed news
- Rate limiting or 429 if too many calls are made in quick succession
- Malformed or missing query parameter returns an error
- Stale results if the underlying news index has not refreshed recently

## How this service works

40+ public web-data, SERP, e-commerce, real-estate, finance and AI-search APIs, payable per call over x402 (USDC on Base, Polygon, Arbitrum). No account or API key required. Most endpoints $0.003; AI-model endpoints $0.005.

## Output

A JSON response containing a list of real-time news articles matching the query, likely including article titles, URLs, source names, publication dates, and snippet summaries scraped from live web news sources.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "required": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {}
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/openweb-ninja-real-time-news-search-api-e4bf3e8d/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402.openwebninja.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402.openwebninja.com/llms.txt)